If you can, just give up the number and starts new. It's way easier and cleaner
this post was submitted on 20 Mar 2024
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Yes, the thing is some part of the service won't actually delete your phone number, but even if they did, your phone number has already got to a bunch of data brokers who will probably not delete it ever.
This is the beauty of mandatory phone number requirements. People rarely change their phone number because it is often a painful process, and companies make use of this by treating your phone number as a long term personal identifier. If you can, it's really just better to get rid of it, however attempting to delete everything attached to it that you can is not a silly thing.
Do shortcode text messages work from other companies? If not, it’s a device/carrier problem.
They do work for other companies, Telegram says on the app they're texting my telegram specifically. I can't change it to SMS.
Get a new number.. better than having to hassle to do that shit.
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